Year-End Lists

Andrew Simpson: Best Films of 2021, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll

1. Il Buco
   Michelangelo Frammartino
2. Memoria
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
3. Drive My Car
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
4. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
   Anders Edström and C.W. Winter
5. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
   Aleksandre Koberidze
6. Madalena
   Madiano Marcheti
7. Titane
   Julia Ducournau
8. The Inheritance
   Ephraim Asili
9. The Souvenir Part II
   Joanna Hogg
10. No Sudden Move
    Steven Soderbergh

Special Mentions

• Another Gaze's online retrospective of the work of Cecilia Mangini
• Benediction
  Terence Davies
• Azor
  Andreas Fontana
• Hit the Road
  Panah Panahi
• Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
  Lili Horvát
• The Velvet Underground
  Todd Haynes
• Friends and Strangers
  James Vaughan
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  Questlove
• Mad God
  Phil Tippett